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TIL that the iconic ‘rockney’ duo Chas and Dave played on the Eminem track ‘My Name Is’

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9nW7 TIL the longest continual train rail can take you from the Portuguese coast, through Russia, all the way to southern Vietnam, covering over 10,700 miles (17k kilometers) and 17 countries in 13 days.
G8LJ TIL that the “collapsed dorsal fin” you see on killer whales in aquatic theme parks like SeaWorld is usually a consequence of captivity.
RW56 TIL the Amphitheatre of Pompeji, the first one the Romans built out of stone in the 1st cent. BCE, still offers valuable and relevant lessons to crowd control specialists in the creation of modern venues
ANo9l TIL there exist tsunami survival pods, capable of saving lives during tsunamis. These buoyant capsules can accommodate from two to sixteen people.
R5va9 TIL the Parthenon in Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee, is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, Greece. It was designed by architect William Crawford Smith and built in 1897 as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition.